Jeremiah 3:1
It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
When a man marries a woman and later decides he does not love her because he found something he does not like about her he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house.
Jeremiah 2:20
Long ago you broke off your yoke, tore off your bonds, and said that you would not be a slave. You lay down and acted like a prostitute on every high hill and under every large tree.
Ezekiel 16:26
You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.
Jeremiah 3:9
Because she was not concerned about her prostitution. She polluted the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.
Jeremiah 4:1
Jehovah says: If you come back, Israel, if you come back to me, if you take your disgusting idols out of my sight and you do not stray from me,
Ezekiel 16:28-29
The others did not satisfy you so you ran after the Assyrians. You were their prostitute, but they did not satisfy you either.
Zechariah 1:3
Tell them, Jehovah of Hosts has said: Jehovah of Hosts says return to me and I will return to you.
Leviticus 18:24-28
Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations that I am forcing out of your way have become unclean.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
From there you will seek Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being. And you will find him!
Deuteronomy 22:21
they will take the girl to the doorway of her father's house. The men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.
Judges 19:2
She was unfaithful to him and went to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah. She was there four whole months.
Isaiah 24:5
The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 55:6-9
Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
Jeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its produce. You came and made my land unclean. You made my heritage disgusting.
Jeremiah 2:23
How can you say, 'I have not been dishonored and have not gone after the Baal gods?' Look how you have behaved in the valley. Acknowledge what you have done. You are like a young camel that swiftly runs here and there.
Jeremiah 3:12-14
Go and proclaim this message to the north: 'Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,' declares Jehovah. 'I will no longer be angry with you.
Jeremiah 3:22
Return you backsliding children, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful. See, we have come to you because you are Jehovah our God.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
Jeremiah 8:4-6
Say to them: 'This is what Jehovah says: When someone falls, he gets back up. When someone turns away from me, he returns.'
Ezekiel 23:4-49
Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: 'As I am alive! Declares the Lord Jehovah. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Only that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'
Hosea 1:2
When Jehovah first spoke through Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go and marry an adulterous wife and have children with her for the land commits flagrant adultery. They have abandoned Jehovah.
Hosea 2:5-7
Their mother played the harlot. She that conceived them acted shamefully! For she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
Hosea 14:1-4
Return, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Micah 2:10
Get up and go because this is not your resting-place. Uncleanness brings on destruction, a painful destruction.
Luke 15:16-24
He wanted to eat the Carob bean pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything to eat.